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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 12, 2000Franklin County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 2000, 4:52 PM EDT for Franklin County, Florida. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Aug 12, 2000, 4:52 PM EDT (20:52 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Franklin County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 75 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 636 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
636 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1045 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 122054
TORTLH

FLC037-122120-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
452 PM EDT SAT AUG 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL FRANKLIN COUNTY IN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 450 PM EDT(350 PM CDT) NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARRABELLE
  BEACH MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  DOG ISLAND BETWEEN 455 AND 510 PM EDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR
A REINFORCED SHELTER.

LAT...LON 2991 8459 2984 8478 2960 8469 2968 8445

.END
18 WOOL

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.